Bonus!
My bonus is going to be about $1000 more than I estimated! Wohoooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
That just kicks the hell out of my credit cards now.
All this money should hit my accounts by the end of the month. I'm in SUCH A GOOD MOOD!!!!!!
Breathing Large Sighs Of Relief
So. I'm feeling pretty good. I finished my book and have that out to an agent for review, and my finances are looking better, because of several large influxes of money, from bonuses and tax returns and just because I've been really frugal the last couple of months. I wasn't keeping close track of my finances, but I spent a lot of time at home writing, so I didn't spend that much.
The book is 130,000 words, with is about 320 pages. I'm happy with the length and how everything turned out. I was particularly happy with the ending and how I managed to pull all my varied themes together. Whoo! What a marathon. I'm working with a professor at my graduate program on revising it, so instead of trying to do school and my novel this semester, as separate entities, they'll be combined.
It's 35 below zero, with the windchill. I can feel the cold rushing through the windows of the coffeehouse I'm in right now.
I'm off to Singapore in two weeks, and I've set aside about $1,000 for spending money. That actually equals about $1,400 in Singapore dollars, so I'm hoping I won't even spend that much. I've talked to my sister about being frugal.
By the end of this month, I'll have about $4,000 left in my accounts to pay off debt. This will basically decimate my credit cards and (disregarding the school debt for now) leave the rest of my debt for "mop up".
The real estate market is crazy right now, and I've been talking to a realtor about buying an inexpensive rental property. Some of these places already have renters in them, and the rental amounts are larger than the mortgage, taxes, and housing insurance would be. They're bank owned and the banks are desperate to get rid of them.
That's all for now. Later skaters.
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